Athletics at the 1979 Pan American Games – Men's marathon

The men's marathon competition of the athletics events at the 1979 Pan American Games finished at the Estadio Sixto Escobar.[1][2] The defending Pan American Games champion was Rigoberto Mendoza of Cuba.

Men's marathon at the VIII Pan American Games
Venue	Estadio Sixto Escobar
Dates	14 July
Winning time	2:24:09
Medalists
Radamés González   Cuba   Luis Barbosa   Colombia   Rich Hughson   Canada
«1975 1983»

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan American Games records were as follows:

World record	Shigeru So (JPN)	2:09:05.6	Japan	February 5, 1978
Pan American Games record	Frank Shorter (USA)	2:22:40	Cali, Colombia	1971

Results

KEY:

WR

World Record

GR

Pan American Record

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time[3]	Notes
	Radamés González	Cuba	2:24:09
	Luis Barbosa	Colombia	2:24:44
	Rich Hughson	Canada	2:25:34
4	Héctor Rodríguez	Colombia	2:25:51
5	Edmundo Warnke	Chile	2:26:14
6	Tom Fleming	United States	2:28:06
7	Tom Howard	Canada	2:28:50
8	Francisco Vargas	Puerto Rico	2:29:11
9	Elói Schleder	Brazil	2:29:42	[4]
10	Virgilio Herrera	Guatemala	2:31:53
11	José de Jesús	Puerto Rico	2:34:35
12	Raymond Swan	Bermuda	2:42:15
13	Hipólito López	Honduras	2:43:08
14	José Hernández	El Salvador	2:43:16
15	Wallace Williams	Virgin Islands	3:22:12
	Robert Doyle	United States	DNF	[5]
	Hilario Álvarez	Mexico	DNF	[6]
	Rafael Ángel Pérez	Costa Rica	DNF
	Miguel Ángel Legorreta	Mexico	DNF	[6]
	Aldo Allen	Cuba	DNF
	José Medina	Venezuela	DNS

References

1. Memoria VIII Juegos Deportivos Panamericanos San Juan, Puerto Rico 1979 (PDF) (in Spanish). 1979 Pan American Games Organising Committee (COPAN 79). 1981. p. 197. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-08-11. Retrieved 2019-08-16.
2. Full results
3. Memoria VIII Juegos Deportivos Panamericanos San Juan, Puerto Rico 1979 (PDF) (in Spanish). 1979 Pan American Games Organising Committee (COPAN 79). 1981. p. 251. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-08-11. Retrieved 2019-08-16.
4. "Agberto e revezamento 4 x 100m trazem bronze" (in Portuguese). Jornal do Brasil. 15 July 1979. p. 33. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
5. "Podium" (in Portuguese). Jornal do Brasil. 15 July 1979. p. 32. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
6. Mexican results